Rene S. Roupinian

René S. Roupinian is a founding partner of Raisner Roupinian LLP in New York, which also has offices in California. For nearly two decades, she has devoted her practice to the litigation of federal and stateWorker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act cases and related employment claims on behalf of tens of thousands of terminated employees. Her practice is national, with most cases initiated as class action adversary proceedings. Her class action clients often hold seats on unsecured creditors’ committees. Ms. Roupinian has litigated hundreds of WARN Act cases and recovered more than $100million in settlements and judgments on behalf of employees let go without adequate notice. Her firm’s class actions have been adjudicated by the U.S. Supreme Court and Appeals Courts for the Second,Third, Fourth and Fifth Circuits, and none have been decertified. Her notable class action bankruptcy cases include Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp., 137 S. Ct. 973, 197 L. Ed. 2d 398 (2017); Conn v. Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP (In re Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP), 487 B.R. 169 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2013); In re MF Glob.Inc., 512 B.R. 757 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2014); Etzelsberger v. Fisker Automotive Holdings Inc., 13-13087-KG, 2019 WL 8269114 (Bankr. D. Del. Dec. 27, 2019); In re Shopko, Case No.19-80064 (Bankr. D.Neb.); In re Transcare Corp., 614 B.R. 187 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2020); and Federman v. ITT EducationalServices Inc., Case No. 16-50296 (Bankr. S.D. Ind.). Ms. Roupinian received her B.A. in 1989 from theUniversity of Michigan and her J.D. in 1994 from Michigan State University College of Law, where she was a member of the Moot Court Executive Board.